Upgrading Progeny to Unstable

["Doc - KD4E" <e.net@verizon.net>]

I am trying the comand (see below) sequence just to see if it works
better than the Progeny->Woody version that repeatedly fails to
support pcmcia on my laptop.

This is an upgrade to Unstable.

There is one change, on line two "deps" needs to be "depends".

Also, under "Configuring PCMCIA" it asks to "Stop PCMCIA
support" because for some reason it is "recommended" but "not
strictly necessary" ... "that this daemon be stopped".  It does say
that the system "will lose all access to all PCMCIA devices".

Why would I want to do that?  I need my PCMCIA devices in
case the upgrade is incomplete and I need to download PCMCIA
stuff.

Or is the assumption that I can reactivate PCMCIA afterwards?
(Sure didn't work with the Progeny->Woody upgrade!)

I am going to go ahead and keep Cardmgr active but would like
to understand the rationale for shutting it down.

Thanks!  Doc
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# apt-get update
# dpkg --purge --force-deps libfreetype6
# apt-get -f dist-upgrade
You may need to do this a couple of times, but just doing it once worked for
me,
though I've only tried this on two machines. It's quite a good way to
install Debian,
if you hate the installer.
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